Do you like your birthday?

[~Kilza~]

I enjoy my birthday! It's a nice time where I use the day to relax (sometimes by taking the day off work or taking a short day depending on the day of the week it falls on), have food brought in for supper, have an ice cream cake for my birthday cake and get presents from my family. All good stuff to make the day worthwhile!

As for sharing my birthday and receiving birthday wishes, I've shied away from sharing my birthday in recent years. Receiving birthday wishes is a bit egotistical for me, I guess, since I like to receive them and feel good when I get several birthday wishes, but I generally feel more disappointed when I end up expecting people to give me those birthday wishes and they just don't (whether it's because they forgot or just chose not to). My birthday is public on Facebook, but literally only my family posts on there to wish me a happy birthday, and it's been that way since I graduated high school (my first birthday after graduation, having nobody but my family wish me a happy birthday was a brutal wake-up call). On forums or places like Discord, I've sometimes had people wish me a happy birthday. But generally in recent years, nobody has wished me a happy birthday unless I bring up that it's my birthday (even when my birthday is visible), so I've just ended up hiding it and don't really bother pointing out when my birthday is anymore.

I actually don't know if anybody outside my family realizes when my birthday is anymore, lol. I do enjoy giving other people birthday wishes when I have enough familiarity with them to feel comfortable with giving them one, though, in hopes that it makes their birthday all that much better!

 

[kayleee]

I’m pretty sure my birthday was public on Facebook when I still used Facebook. I would barely ever check Facebook anyway before I deactivated it, and all my real friends knew I didn’t use it so they would never wish me a happy birthday there. The only people who would were vague acquaintances who only knew it was my bday because Facebook told them, so I didn’t care about those birthday wishes anyway lol.

I do enjoy celebrating my birthday, and I typically like to have a big party/do something extravagant for it. I don’t care if people know about it, and even if people know I don’t care if they don’t say anything about it to me. I forget people’s birthdays all the time so it doesn’t bother me at all when people forget mine.

 

[CylieDanny]

Snipe.

 

[Beanz]

i like my birthday and i appreciate when people do wish me a happy birthday. i have facebook but people usually wish me happy birthday to my mom on her account. i don’t know if my birthday is public on there, but i think so? i don’t use facebook that much anymore.

 

[Envy]

Now that I'm fast approaching my mid 30s, birthdays are beginning to feel more like "The years are passing by far too quickly".

I do share my birthday most places. It's a pretty memorable date for a birthday, so I'm aware of the risk of people I know in real life finding me, but so far that hasn't happened... to my knowledge. (Maybe it has. Hello IRL stalkers! ) TBH, I don't think most people IRL care that me about that much so I'm blowing things out of proportion.

I've had my feelings hurt before when (IRL) friends did not wish me happy birthday, but that's only on a rare occasion. Like when my ex didn't wish me a happy birthday in 2015. I cried at work. But getting away from social media wouldn't have done anything about that, because being my ex she would have known my birthday anyway, and had my phone number.

 

[Xara]

yes and no. i enjoy the extra attention, the birthday wishes, the gifts of money i usually get from my parents + grandfather and the fact i can now celebrate by getting drunk lol, but i don’t like the impending hurt feelings since every year, at least one person that i care about won’t wish me a happy birthday. it doesn’t hurt as much as it used to (in previous years, it would be enough to ruin my entire day), but it definitely still stings and leaves me questioning my friendships and how important i am to others. my birthday also leaves me with a sense of disbelief now that i’m legally an adult — like, how the hell am i turning 20 this year?

as for sharing my birthday on social media, i have it public on every one i’m on, though the only one i really use is instagram. i also have my birthday public on here, which is where most of my birthday wishes come from. i’m okay with that, though, since i’m closer to this community than i am to anyone on instagram.

tldr; i like my birthday and have never tried to hide it, though it definitely has its negatives lol.

 

[Stella-Io]

Yes, I like my birthday. Normally I go shopping, but for my 16th and 21st I had a more special bday. My 16th I went swimming with dolphins! My 21st I went to Disney and had alcohol for the first time (21st was in January, before the whole pandemic happened in the United States).

I also get to choose a dinner that day and get to pick out some sort of dessert to have. Last year I was craving Key Lime pie, so I made that my bday dessert lol.

This year, I requested a week off of work. I normally never take that much time off for myself. In my 3 years in the workforce, I've taken about 2 or 3 days off. Ever. One year at my old job, they had me working on my bday. So I took my birthday this year as an excuse to take more time off. Esp since others at work would take a week or two off, multiple times a year, it made me envious that they could take that time off while I'm working alot. Nothing except my own sense 'I need to be the reliable one' prevented me from taking time off. I'm very much looking forward to having to do nothing for an entire week, just two more to go.

I do make my birthday but not year public on my socials (like here and Twitter). Even thou if anyone asked I would tell them my age.

 

[VanitasFan26]

No I don't like my birthday and I sometimes don't even care anymore. I don't know know its just that, I am just feeling very fed up with everything. I didn't even do anything last year and back in 2020, Covid-19 happened, All I did was just sit at home playing games and watching TV, trying to find a job is such a pain these days, and I really haven't figured out what the heck I even want to do in life. I know people tend to ask me these questions of "What do you want to do in your life" or "What will you do when you're at this age" and I keep giving the same response "I don't know and I would not know until I find out". I don't want to sound like an ungrateful person, but the only people who celebrate my birthday is my parents (even though they have mistreated me) and a few friends who haven't left me yet. Other than that I am just feeling fed up.

 

[Alienfish]

No, I don't list it on my social media, mostly cause I don't care that much for it, nor do people need to find me because of it. I do list it here cause I go here. If real life people know they know not much you can do lol but I wouldn't list it anywhere.

 

[MadisonBristol]

I have mixed feelings. I'm not much of a birthday person. It's okay, and 9 is my lucky number since it is 9/9. But I have the same birthday as my dad, so I'm a little sad when my birthday happens because he's in prison so I miss him a lot.

 

[ravenclaw_equestrian]

My birthday is January 5th, right after Christmas, which means my family shops for my Christmas and birthday presents at the same time. Because I'm getting double the presents at once, less effort and thought is put into my birthday presents, and I even have relatives who will just give me one gift and tell me it counts for Christmas and my birthday. I usually do enjoy my birthday, but I feel like I don't get anything except for money and gift cards. And I usually get less money than most of my other relatives. I just feel like everyone thinks that my birthday is somehow less special because it's right after Christmas and it's so annoying.

 

[Romaki]

Nah, it's always a disappointing day that highlights the lack of love in my life.

 

[cornimer]

I like the idea of my birthday, but I have a bad habit of getting hurt/disappointed because someone important to me didn't wish me a happy birthday or nobody did anything special. So this year I really want to stop caring about it and not have expectations.

 

[Kitsuragi]

not really, i don't make a big deal out of my birthday because of my existential dread and fear of mortality but i absolutely love celebrating other peoples birthdays.

 

[Neb]

I do! It’s easy to remember, redeems an otherwise lonely holiday, and is an excuse to eat leftover Valentine’s candy. Not many people have it either since Summer birthdays are more common than winter birthdays.

 

[-Mars-]

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[Millysaurusrexjr]

Birthdays are no fun once you're past 21.
I keep it public on my profile though anyway because why not

 

[TurnipBell20]

I don‘t care about my birthday, it’s just like any other day. Sometimes I forget it myself. I do make the day and month public on some online platforms, but I don’t expect or want anyone to wish me a happy birthday.

 

[Plume]

I don't have my birthday visible on social media, but my family still posts wishing me a happy birthday. It's nice of them, and I try to return the favor, but regardless, I feel somewhat awkward about it.

I enjoy celebrating my birthday with my partner, we typically eat out and enjoy my favorite cake together.

 

[Shawna]

My birthday is June 9th. I love celebrating my birthday online. I like to be the center of attention. XDDD
Plus on birthdays and Christmas, I get some spending money from family!